30,000 Spectators Show Up to Traditional Wedding in Zhejiang

30,000 Spectators Show Up to Traditional Wedding in Zhejiang
Dec 30, 2014 By eChinacities.com

Pictures of a sedan chair completely swamped by crowds of people have emerged online as a traditional wedding in a rural community in Zhejiang Province drew crowds of up to 30,000 people.

The wedding took place near Lanxi City, Zhejiang, and pulled out all the stops; the bride arrived in a sedan chair, whilst the groom rode a horse in front and the ceremony included a lion dance, a ritual worshiping heaven and earth.

The crowds were so big that police had to be dispatches to herd the spectators and keep them in check and the wedding party had trouble getting through the hoards of people. According to Tencent news, it was the couple’s families who decided to honour their kids’ union by ‘returning to the old ways’.

Source: Tencent

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Samsara

"According to Tencent news, it was the couple’s families who decided to honour their kids’ union by ‘returning to the old ways’." --- According to Samsara it was 30,000 vultures looking for free food. At the funeral of my friend's grandmother (in a rural village), hundreds of locals turned up the moment food was set out. 10 minutes later, they were all gone, along with the food (mostly stuffed into bags). "Returning to the old ways" is a nice way of saying "being greedy, opportunistic, shameless and undignified". Which, coincidentally, is also the new way.

Dec 31, 2014 00:45 Report Abuse